Sheahara Pandithage
Financial Crime Executive Leader
Email: [email protected]
With over 20 years of international experience across banking, fintech, digital assets, and regtech, Sheahara is a seasoned Financial Crime and Compliance Consultant recognised for her ability to deliver high-impact, project-driven solutions across AML, KYC, sanctions, and regulatory compliance.
Her extensive expertise spans the full spectrum of regulatory frameworks, including FCA, JMLSG, MLRs, CASS, and EU directives, alongside hands-on experience in cryptocurrencies and digital asset compliance. She has built and led Financial Crime and Compliance Audit functions, overseen major remediation and assurance programmes, and designed robust compliance frameworks that align with evolving regulatory expectations.
Throughout her career, Sheahara has written, reviewed, and implemented financial crime policies and procedures, recruited and managed global teams, and delivered targeted training for Financial Crime Compliance professionals. She has supported transformation and regulatory change programmes focused on systems, processes, and governance improvement across jurisdictions such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, and India.
A trusted advisor to boards and senior executives, she is known for balancing regulatory integrity with commercial pragmatism and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Her recent engagements include training senior compliance leaders to assume MLRO responsibilities, leading assurance reviews under global standards programmes, and supporting Global Heads of Financial Crime in driving sustainable and innovation-led compliance transformation.
Her extensive expertise spans the full spectrum of regulatory frameworks, including FCA, JMLSG, MLRs, CASS, and EU directives, alongside hands-on experience in cryptocurrencies and digital asset compliance. She has built and led Financial Crime and Compliance Audit functions, overseen major remediation and assurance programmes, and designed robust compliance frameworks that align with evolving regulatory expectations.
Throughout her career, Sheahara has written, reviewed, and implemented financial crime policies and procedures, recruited and managed global teams, and delivered targeted training for Financial Crime Compliance professionals. She has supported transformation and regulatory change programmes focused on systems, processes, and governance improvement across jurisdictions such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, and India.
A trusted advisor to boards and senior executives, she is known for balancing regulatory integrity with commercial pragmatism and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Her recent engagements include training senior compliance leaders to assume MLRO responsibilities, leading assurance reviews under global standards programmes, and supporting Global Heads of Financial Crime in driving sustainable and innovation-led compliance transformation.